A scruffy twelve-year-old fleeing authorities crashes into Thomas Edison's lab. Recognizing himself in the boy, Edison takes him in. Soon, the lad becomes a sorcerer's apprentice to the Wizard of Menlo Park as they pursue Edison's dream of motion pictures.
Toward the end of his career, Albert Einstein befriends a twelve-year-old African-American girl, Lannie, whose youth and earnestness renew his spirit. In return, Albert gives Lannie a priceless gift: awareness of her potential.
As he unravels mysteries of the universe with his new telescope and challenges the scientific authorities in Italy in 1605, Galileo finds support from an unexpected source, the son of the powerful Medicis.
Humphrey, the young scribe of Isaac Newton, learns lessons about overcoming personal hardship as he works with Newton to prove the scientist's theories on celestial movement.
